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Mastering Azure Virtual Desktop

By : Ryan Mangan
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Mastering Azure Virtual Desktop

By: Ryan Mangan

Overview of this book

Azure Virtual Desktop is a cloud desktop virtualization platform that securely delivers virtual desktops and remote apps. Mastering Azure Virtual Desktop will guide you through designing, implementing, configuring, and maintaining an Azure Virtual Desktop environment effectively. This book can also be used as an exam preparation guide to help you sit the Microsoft AZ-140 exam. You’ll start with an introduction to the essentials of Azure Virtual Desktop. Next, you’ll get to grips with planning an Azure Virtual Desktop architecture before learning how to implement an Azure Virtual Desktop environment. Moving ahead, you’ll learn how to manage and control access as well as configure security controls on your Azure Virtual Desktop environment. As you progress, you’ll understand how to manage user environments and configure MSIX app attach and other Azure Virtual Desktop features to enhance the user experience. You’ll also learn about the Azure Active Directory (AD) join and getting started feature. Finally, you’ll discover how to monitor and maintain an Azure Virtual Desktop environment to help you support your users and diagnose issues when they occur. By the end of this Microsoft Azure book, you’ll have covered all the essential topics you need to know to design and manage Azure Virtual Desktop and prepare for the AZ-140 exam.
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction
3
Section 2: Planning an Azure Virtual Desktop Architecture
8
Section 3: Implementing an Azure Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
13
Section 4: Managing Access and Security
16
Section 5: Managing User Environments and Apps
21
Section 6: Monitoring and Maintaining an Azure Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Troubleshooting OS issues related to Azure Virtual Desktop

In this section, we will learn how to troubleshoot Session Host configuration issues. We will focus on the most common issues, including domain joins and communication between the Azure Virtual Desktop service and session host agent.

VMs are not joined to the domain

VMs not joining a domain typically occurs because the username and password that were entered during the host pool's setup/adding VMs were incorrect. Make sure that you check your password and use the full UPN of your Active Directory domain; for example, domJoin.company.local.

Important Note

When you're using AAD joined hosts, you would expect to see the hosts joined without the domain extension shown previously.

The other issue that may be preventing your VMs from joining the domain is a networking-related one, specifically DNS. Ensure that you have configured DNS correctly so that it points to your Active Directory Domain Service&apos...